One night with Morrissey for ’80s New Wave kids - Philippine Daily Inquirer
By: Pocholo Concepcion
By: Pocholo Concepcion
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What keeps your music fresh?
I think it remains … as you say … “fresh” because it isn’t promoted. It isn’t rammed down people’s throats. It remains a secret. A very large one, but a secret nonetheless.
Is there anything else you want to accomplish?
I’d like to do three more albums, then star in a French film directed by Guillaume Canet. Then I’d like to have my own television show in mid-sentence.
It’s your first time in Manila, what can Filipino fans look forward to?
They can look forward to walking out of the concert hall seven inches taller than when they went in
He thinks What Difference Does it Make stinks? Are you kidding me?
three more albums, three posible tours, wow I'm really happy !!
More whining about record labels, bad Press, no promotion, the Queen etc etc.
In fairness, that's what these journalists want. I'm not even calling the writers dishonest or evil. Morrissey's whining sells papers and generates website hits. Same old story.
Have you ever noticed that Morrissey sounds infinitely more down-to-earth, sane, and content with life in direct proportion to the length of the article? I have a theory that the better interviewers actually get him talking for hours, warmly and congenially, and when they leave his presence they feel like they've had an interesting, easy-going conversation with a guy who, beneath all the rhetoric, really does have two feet planted in the real world. It's only later, when they've typed up the transcript and see how the words look on their computer screens, that they realize he's dropped a few atomic bombs. I think he comes off a lot more whiny and bitter than he really is. I'd love to ask some of the writers who have interviewed him over the years if they've found this to be true.
I think he's always hated it, for some reason. I think the main issue he disliked was the production - in '84 he called it his "only regret" - and then a couple of years ago he said it was 'lyrically shameful' or some such.
"There's a couple of songs I don't like. In fact, I didn't really like them at the time. Like 'What Difference Does It Make', I thought was absolutely awful the day after the record was pressed..." (1992).
He probably does, I agree; but no fan knows who Morrissey really is, and when this repetitious anti-Royal axe-grinding is all we've got to go on in print, it doesn't paint a particularly flattering portrait. He just sounds like a man who bears too many grudges and doesn't have much else to talk about. You can blame the journalists all day long, you can say his remarks are taken out of context or twisted to generate sales or whatever else, but at some point you have to read what he's actually saying and realise that it's the same old "I am a martyr" crap again and again.
I thought the part about his penis being 7 inches long was funny.
Morrissey is too sexy to retire!!!Flacid, no less. The three albums thing? Not going to happen. It's code for his nick name, "tripod."
I love the "none" answer to who inspires him .. in a time where there is more music now available to us than at any other point in history, he sticks with the head in the sand approach. Yeah mainstream radio is shit, but if that's what you judge music on now then you are missing out on so much. It just reeks of so many people his age all "music was so much better back in my day!". Yeah the quality of what was on the radio was generally better, but the sheer amount of music coming at us from every possible angle now means there is SOMETHING for everyone, if you can't see that then you're either not looking for it, or you're determined not to find it.